Gade VC

[Alan Howe]

...forthcoming on the Gramola label:
http://www.mdt.co.uk/mendelssohn-gade-violinkonzert-thomas-albertus-orchestra-doron-salomon-gramola-sacd.html
Shame about the hackneyed coupling...

There are two good recordings already available:

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Christina-Astrand-Romantic-Violin-Concertos/hnum/1049907  (an excellent coupling)

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Niels-W-Gade-1817-1890-Violinkonzert-op-56/hnum/7231159  (a highly inappropriate coupling!)

In case you don't know the piece, it's an absolutely magnificent late work, with tunes galore - some of breathtaking beauty. Try the slow movement...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwMNutDKDuM&list=PLBlNpealb4JUBtSY5RKmOpsCmG0IK6vBq

[JimL]

The Mendelssohn is a truly appropriate coupling, considering that it was Gade who conducted the premiere of that worthy work.

[Alan Howe]

Appropriate, but hackneyed.

[semloh]

What do you think would have been a better coupling, Alan? (Let's assume you could ignore the marketing power of a sung composer.) Maybe another Dane - Børresen perhaps? Or would you prefer greater contrast?

[eschiss1]

a new recording of Gade's violin/orchestra capriccio, or of a violin work by another member of the Gade family, would not have been a premiere (well, ok, neither would the Børresen, or the Lange-Müller which I would have suggested ), but would have been less so (though these programming choices, it's true, have already been tried on Danacord and elsewhere. Then again, always room to do them better, I gather?). Whether it would have been as good an idea from other points of view, I don't know!

[Alan Howe]

I'd suggest Gernsheim's 1st VC. A major piece by another composer in the broad conservative tradition.

[JimL]

Well, if you're going to go all-Danish, the Nielsen, although out of our remit, would be an obvious coupling.